Success is not sustainable if it is defined by how big you become or by how much money you accumulate. Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.

-- Jack Ma

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

-- Grace Hopper

Favorable timing is less important than geographical advantage, and that is less important than unity among people.

-- Mencius

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

-- Richard Branson

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

-- Steve Jobs

I believe that business should offer a form of moral leadership, being a more powerful force in society than religion or government.

-- Anita Roddick